Wayne Lash, owner of Fisherman's Resort at Big Nance Creek, said it's up to citizens to make the referendum happen because the state lawmakers wouldn't introduce a bill in the Legislature that would allow a vote.

State law allows the probate judge to add a wet/dry vote if the court receives a petition representing 25 percent of the number of voters in the last election. Lash will need to get 3,500 signatures on his petition.

"So far everyone I've talked to in the county in convenience stores, except one store, has been willing to put a petition in the store," Lash told The Daily. "We're going to put them in any public places that we're allowed to put them in."